...state of the Union message, Roosevelt elaborated on the purposes of social security as follows: I2° We have come to a clear realization of the fact that...cannot exist without economic security and independence * * *. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and...

...played a major, perhaps principal role in setting the stage for war. As Roosevelt told Congress in 1944, "People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." It is worth remembering in this connection that Marx and his followers argued in the nineteenth and...

...political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness. We have come to clear realization of the fact that true individual...exist without economic security and independence. ... In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to...

...were our rights to life and liberty.22 We have come to a clearer realization of the fact, however, that true individual freedom cannot exist without..."Necessitous men are not free men." People who are hungry, people who are out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. In our day these economic...

...advocated as US President the adoption of an "economic Bill of Rights", saying that "We have come to the clear realization of the fact that true individual...of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made".4 He proposed for inclusion many of those economic and social rights which subsequently came...

...second Bill of Rights. an economic guarantee to complement the existing political document. because "necessitous men are not free men. People who are...job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." Roosevelts proposal went nowhere, and nearly half a century later. Jefferson's promise is still just...

...What is sustainable development? The United Nations Development Program provides a useful explanation: We have come to a clear realization of the fact that...exist without economic security and independence.. .We have accepted...a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can...

...defended in similar terms. Proposing an "economic bill of rights" in 1944, Franklin Roosevelt argued that "true individual freedom cannot exist without...security and independence. 'Necessitous men are not free men.'"85 The modern welfare state can be understood as answering the advocates of unbridled capitalism...

...requires a short excursus into Roosevelt's doctrines. Roosevelt wrote in relation to freedom from want: We have come to a clear realization of the fact that...security and independence. Necessitous men are not freemen. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. In our...

...expanded — these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness. We have come to a clear realization of the fact that...security and independence. "Necessitous men are not freemen." People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. In...